Different stakeholders have hailed a government policy to protect the rights of domestic workers, but working parents fear it may create a shortage of domestic helps causing a crisis for them.

A Dhaka court yesterday used its inherent power to include three labour ministry officials in the charge sheet of the murder case filed over the Rana Plaza collapse in Savar in April 2013. The investigating officer (IO) of the case found involvement of the three in the crimes. But the labour ministry refused to give its approval to bring charges against them. According to law, government's prior approval is required to give a charge sheet against a government official.

Ruling Awami League assessed that AL-nominated mayor aspirants were ahead in around 200 municipalities out of the 234 going to polls on December 30.

Bangladesh showed an extraordinary progress in human development index (HDI) with an average annual growth of 1.64 percent in the last two and a half decades, which is the highest among the eight South Asian countries. Despite the progress, Bangladesh remains behind Sri Lanka, the Maldives and India on the latest global ranking with a static 142nd position in the HDI, according to the 2015 Human Development Report (HDR) released by the United Nations Development Programme at the planning ministry in Dhaka yesterday.

With the Awami League men continuing to breach the polls code, an election commissioner yesterday sought the prime minister's intervention to check this.

Teachers of non-government organisations under the Monthly Pay Order (MPO) system will also get salaries under the new pay scale with retrospective effect from July 1 this year, according to the Ministry of Education.

The liberation war affairs ministry has decided to further reduce the age limit for being recognised as freedom fighters to 12 years and four months.

“The state will have to answer for curtailing the freedom of a citizen … Some 70-80 people are being detained every day in the name of maintaining law and

"I was packing my luggage. I had to leave, but now I can stay."

Police want restrictions on journalists' access to polling stations in the December 30 municipal polls, but the Election Commission has

After another clash between two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League at the Islamic University, the authorities yesterday declared the

Many raised their eyebrows, some thought he was out of his mind when they came across Mohammad Elias' new business idea some 20

Several thousand workers of 24 tea gardens in the district abstained from work yesterday, demanding that the government cancel the

Hunger brought them here. They slashed and cleared the jungle, braving snakes, tigers, and malaria and set up the tea estates.

"Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka has become a den of conspiracy."

Shariful Islam, who was caught red handed during the ISKCON temple attack in Dinajpur on December 10, has confessed his

With the municipal polls drawing nearer, incidents of violence and violation of electoral code of conduct by mayoral hopefuls are on the

Finance ministers from the UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously backed a resolution aimed at ramping up sanctions against the Islamic State group and cutting off its revenue flows.

Two cocktails exploded at a mosque inside Bangladesh Navy's Issa Khan base in Chittagong after Juma prayers yesterday, causing minor injuries to five to six people, said Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Directorate.

Bangladeshi migrant workers often don't get expected services from the labour wings of the country's foreign missions despite the fact that they send home remittance of around $14 billion a year. In most cases, officials and staffs at the wings are unresponsive to the needs of the workers abroad, a number of migrant workers and rights activists told The Daily Star yesterday.